This is an analysis of the poem Better Bitter Than Bitten that begins with:
Better bitter than bitten.
Or hung out to dry and smittened....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AX bbba bcbcbX AX abdb cebded
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,6,2,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010110 111011100 11110100100 11 11101011 10110100 100101 1010110 1111001 010110 0010111 01111 1010110 111011100 001001110010 1001101 00111001001 1101111 100101100100 0111101111 10101 10100001 0101101 1010101101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to are repeated.
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